Quiet Talks on Power

A few years ago I was making a brief tour among the colleges of Missouri. I remember one morning in a certain college village going over from the hotel to take breakfast with some of the boys, and coming back with one of the fellows whom I had just met. As we walked along, chatting away, I asked him quietly, «Are you a christian, sir?» He turned quickly and looked at me with an odd, surprised expression in his eye and then turning his face away said: «Well, I'm a member of church, but